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February 3, 2012  Coldplay know how to please a crowd, which isn't as easy or unimportant as snobs would have you think, or else everybody could do it. If there's any justice in the world, "Charlie Brown" will be the most crowd-pleasing song from last year's Mylo Xyloto. …Read on

January 25, 2012  Coldplay, Mumford and Sons, and My Morning Jacket are following Jay-Z's lead, sort of: All three acts will be leading lineups at charity gigs in the coming months.
Coldplay and Mumford will be joining Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Russell Brand at the first-ever stateside Secret Policeman's Ball, a comedy and music event held sporadically in the U.K. to benefit Amnesty International. …Read on

January 19, 2012  Adele still hasn't confirmed whether she'll be performing at February 12's Grammy Awards — nor have Lady Gaga or Kanye West, for that matter — but Rihanna just told the world she'll be ending her kushy vacation to play music's big night. "My friends @ColdPlay and I will be sharing the stage for a performance at this years Annual Grammy Awards! #BONKERS," she tweeted yesterday. …Read on

December 8, 2011  Coldplay will load up on blacklights and neon graffiti next year when they take their new album Mylo Xyloto on the road for an extensive North American tour starting in April. The jaunt will kick off in western Canada and then work its way south to a pair of gigs at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl. Coldplay will then return to the U.K. …Read on

November 17, 2011  Google officially opened the doors to its online music-download store on Wednesday, joining a competition with Apple's iTunes and Amazon's MP3 shop. Artists providing exclusive tracks for the occasion included the Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Busta Rhymes, and Tiësto. …Read on

November 14, 2011  Chris Martin has unintentionally revived a nearly year-old meme related to a nearly decade-old creative rivalry: He spastically grooved to "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" on this past weekend's Saturday Night Live in the style of Dancing Thom. …Read on

November 2, 2011  First! Coldplay sold 447,000 copies of Mylo Xyloto at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, according to Nielsen SoundScan, which means a few things — they didn't do better than U2's No Line on the Horizon did its debut week in 2009, but they did break iTunes' first-week sales record and earn 2011's third-highest debut-week sales (behind Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne). …Read on

October 28, 2011  On the morning of Saturday, October 15, Chris Martin went for a jog.
He left the West Village apartment where he lives part-time (between his native London) with his wife of nearly eight years, Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and their two children, Apple, 7, and Moses, 5, and headed downtown. He ran past Wall Street, then up Broadway to Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. …Read on

October 27, 2011  Coldplay are doing something a little bit quirky. No, giving their fifth album a cryptically exotic title doesn't count. Days after Chris Martin weirdly hung up on a radio interviewer who asked about his totally newsworthy wife, Rolling Stone reports that the British rockers have opted not to make Mylo Xyloto available to Spotify, Rhapsody, and other streaming services. …Read on